HERBAL MANUAL
The Medicinal, Toilet, Culinary and other Uses of 130 of the most Commonly Used Herbs
By
HAROLD WARD
HERBAL MANUAL – PRACTISING medical herbalists have long recognized the need, evidenced in an increasing public demand, for a popular-priced manual containing an exposition of their attitude towards problems of health and disease, together with a comprehensive and descriptive cyclopedia of the remedies they use, with such other information as is likely to be of use or interest to both general reader and more serious student.
This purpose the present author has thought to achieve by a preliminary survey of the historical background of medical herbalism, followed by an explanation and discussion of the philosophy upon which the herbal practitioner of to-day bases his work.
The greater part of the book is devoted to the cyclopedic dictionary of medicinal and other herbs, with their natural order, botanical and common names and synonyms, their habitats, distinctive features, the parts employed and the therapeutic properties, with uses and dosage.
The better-known herbs, and those which are more commonly seen in prescriptions, as well as those which, for any other reason, may be of unusual interest, have been dealt with, it will be noticed, in greater detail than the less frequently used and discussed plants.
